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Engadget Giveaway: win a Sony NEX-5R, courtesy of Movile!
Whether you're a photography novice or full of top-notch skills, chances are you'd have a hard time saying no to a mirrorless camera. Thanks to our friends at Movile, you'll be given that chance: the company's handing out a 16.1MP Sony NEX-5R (worth $750) to a lucky reader! Movile provides mobile services for smartphones as well as micropayments and HTML5 support on mobile, but today it's getting the word out about PhotoFun, a free app in the iOS App Store. PhotoFun gives you the ability to add custom frames or shapes around your images, throw in captions and share them on Facebook, Twitter or email. After you enter the giveaway by leaving a comment, click the link above to check out the app. Good luck! Winner: Congratulations to Vladamir C. of Centerville, UT for being the lucky recipient of the NEX-5R!
iPad apps: defining experiences from the first wave
There are now over 1,348 approved apps for the iPad. That's on top of the 150,000 iPad-compatible iPhone programs already available in the App Store. When Apple's tablet PC launches, just hours from now, it will have a software library greater than that of any handheld in history -- not counting the occasional UMPC. That said, the vast majority of even those 1,348 iPad apps are not original. They were designed for the iPhone, a device with a comparatively pokey processor and a tiny screen, and most have just been tweaked slightly, upped in price and given an "HD" suffix -- as if that somehow justified the increased cost. Besides, we've seen the amazing potential programs have on iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and webOS when given access to a touchscreen, always-on data connection, GPS, cloud storage and WiFi -- but where are the apps that truly define iPad? What will take advantage of its extra headroom, new UI paradigms and multitouch real estate? Caught between netbook and smartphone, what does the iPad do that the iPhone cannot? After spending hours digging through the web and new iPad section of the App Store, we believe we have a number of reasonably compelling answers. Update: Now includes Wormhole Remote, TweetDeck, SkyGrid, Touchgrind HD, GoToMeeting, SplitBrowser, iDisplay, Geometry Wars and Drawing Pad.
